Rewards for involvement.

I've spent the last few days talking to people about the project, and drawing up some ideas on the sorts of rewards that could be offered to members of the public that donate to our film. Roughly speaking, we came up with the following ideas:

• Everybody who donates is credited as 'Executive Producer' on our website (when it's up).
• Everybody who donates over a set amount (say $25) gets a mention of the credits of the film.
• A link to IMDB (although I can't really confirm this, but hey, they let 'The 1 Second Movie' do it!).

In addition, once progress gets underway and we start receiving donations/income from the public and advertising, we plan to make the following available:

• A comprehensive blog that details production, from start to finish. This will be intended both as a (hopefully) interesting look at the making of a film, but also hopefully as a more resourceful guide to film production for those that may not know too much about it, but have an interest in learning more.
• Art and media from the film. Things such as concept art, pre-viz and other related media. Again, we're in something of a bind here, as we'd like to keep the film itself something of a surprise for when it's actually released. After all, there's no point seeing a film if you've read the script, scene the footage and heard the audio.
• We'd also be happy to answer questions on production, with a view to giving inexperienced filmmakers a first hand account of the logistics and complications of producing a film, be it a feature, short or otherwise.

To cut a long story short, we're keen to give something back. If this was to take off, and money was to start coming in, we'd be only too happy to try and repay the favour as much as possible, by imparting whatever knowledge, opinions or ideas we have to the people who are interested in knowing them.

I'll hopefully be sorting out a donation system soon, to get things moving. I'm still trying to attract as big an audience as possible to this blog, prior to starting the donation system, so spread the word, people!